@Bawolomo,

YOU WERE SO DEAR TO US

WE WILL MISS YOU DEARLY

TEARS ON OUR PILLOWS

SORROW IN HEARTS, BECAUSE OF YOU.


WE'ILL MISS YOU,WE'ILL MISS YOU,WE'ILL MISS YOU,WE'ILL MISS YOU

I just remembered how you said jokingly "if i am ready to be your third wife",i was like, sheosi jokingly.
dnt know your life is so short ,anyone travable would've just organise a dinner with you there in chicago,but no one knows what would happen the nextminute

Bawo, you fulfilled your dream by inspiring most of us in your short life span yet we strongly believe to see you again in God's kingdom. Sleep well until tomorrow when we will see you to part no more.

Very sad, shocking and stunned.

May you rest in PEACE.

Life is very short and one must make the very best use of it.

Bawomolo you impacted on so many lives on NL and legacy lives for every

Rest in peace www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-562997.0.html

rest in peace. bawomolo,

Egress, like that of the egrets is elusive

Your egress is confounding to us

but we cry no more cause there is

decency even in death.

RIP

Mariah Carey ft. Akon & Lil Wayne Bye bye [Remix]

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@ Missy B
I always agree with you but not this time; my regards for you still high but he's gone _ let him rest! Do draw me closer and hug me!

I measure every grief,


I measure every grief I meet
With analytic eyes;
I wonder if it weighs like mine,
Or has an easier size.

I wonder if they bore it long,
Or did it just begin?
I could not tell the date of mine,
It feels so old a pain.

I wonder if it hurts to live,
And if they have to try,
And whether, could they choose between,
They would not rather die.

I wonder if when years have piled--
Some thousands--on the cause
Of early hurt, if such a lapse
Could give them any pause;

Or would they go on aching still
Through centuries above,
Enlightened to a larger pain
By contrast with the love.

The grieved are many, I am told;
The reason deeper lies,--
Death is but one and comes but once
And only nails the eyes.

There's grief of want, and grief of cold,--
A sort they call 'despair,'
There's banishment from native eyes,
In sight of native air.

And though I may not guess the kind
Correctly yet to me
A piercing comfort it affords
In passing Calvary,

To note the fashions of the cross
Of those that stand alone
Still fascinated to presume
That some are like my own.


- Emily Dickinson

R.I.P brother.

r.i.p

Bawo, we only bantered once when I quoted you on a thread. But I would remember how open minded you were, and your live-and-let live approach to life. You were so non judgemental. Every time there was an anti gay thread and I wanted to respond with arguments, I never had to because you had probably already said all I had in mind much better than I ever could. You were an articulate man.

Your death has made me question how I want to live my life. It has made me realise how silly it is to think that because the internet is anonymous one can hide behind a computer and spew garbage, when one can touch lives like you obviously did. I want to live how I would like to be remembered, if not for myself but for my family and friends. . . . . RIP

He was a great guy. Very humble. Didn't trade insults(not even jokingly)
I didn't know him in person, but if i had. . .his absence woulda created a vaccum in me.

RIP bro. Till we meet again. Peace.

Busayo, may ur gentle soul rest in peace.

RIP Bawomolo! Speechless

Sigh,

O, brothers and sisters please take heart,

I never knew this young and intelligent man since i joined NL this year. Now i really regret for not been able to exchange some words with this brilliant young man.  

May your soul rest in peace brother,
Amen.

RIP Bawomolo. I enjoyed our heated debates with each other.

RIP Bawolomo
Death sucks damn

It was saddening to hear of bawomolo's death, "dammit, its bawomolo, bloody hell" that was my jumbled response when I realized he was the 21 year old Nairalander who had been shot.

As I told a dear one to me, I'm humbled to have known someone so young yet more peaceable and level headed than I considered myself to be despite my being a few good years older. He was a like minded soul as I, liberal yet cool as a cucumber, he was the very definition of live and let live, funny and somehow able to rise above the vitriol that is bound to flow in such a crucible of ideas, beliefs and emotions as Nairaland is. He loved his country and yearned for it to be better in such a way as I could relate to, looking at your country from a different land and some distance, wanting, nay longing to retain that connection with the land of your birth and desperately hoping you could wish its problems away.

The Awomolo family should be proud to have produced such a model of sensibility, respect and love for humanity. I will miss you Bawomolo and so will many. You are in our hearts in your time of grief and I can only hope that something good can come out of all this that would be of some tribute to the person he was.

RIP Bawolomo

For a username I came across during my skimming in NL threads and to see the lovely comments outpouring shows you have touched so many directly and indirectly. You are worth every read, knowing and quoting as the case may be but how can one deny the fact that you're a genius and a rare GEM. This goes a long way to show that age is nothing but simply numbers (and yes, beards (bear bear) na design too). We might not have gotten the rest best of you to come but you fulfilled and touched so many hence you're an achiever and an overcomer. Could not hold back and not salute a True Nairaland Soldier that you are.

No amount of tears will bring you back hence we'll keep celebrating you. RIP Olubusayo Awomolo (Bawomolo)



My NL peeps, I know it is hard but this is a road we all have to live with someday. I have had my own unfair share and I "rebelled" but I'm still getting over it (imagine over a year ago) and this is something to take to heart- ", And Inya Ode said the late Archbishop of Jos, Gabriel Gonsum Ganaka said, "Quit asking God, WHY! He just might be moved to call you up to give you answers".

rip. who killed him? why? gangs? rip

I kept calling, just to hear that voice over his VM.
I can't keep checking who is online, still expecting him to randomly sign on.
I dont fear death anymore, because I know there are people like him waiting for me.

Ki Olorun sho gbogbo wa, ki Olorun fi itunu is okan awon ebi t'ara e.
God knows best, they say. I will try to accept that.

RIP brother. I pray your family will find closure. Amen.

If I could tell his parents what jumps out at me from my encounters with him: I would eulogize their son by calling him clever and witty. Calling him intelligent doesn't personify him with adequate merit in my opinion, so wise would be a better alternative (for a lot of the reasons written here: http://authspot.com/thoughts/intelligence-vs-wisdom/ and many more). The wisdom that could have taken others a 70-year lifetime to accomplish, he was able to garner in his years.

Though he wasn't a believer, which in my own irrelevant opinion I guess would have been a wiser decision for him since I believe we eventually meet our Creator after life, and accepting our Creator here on earth would in turn make it easier for our Creator to accept us(but then again that's mine personal belief and opinion that he so passionately renounced as an atheist who believes it all ends here on earth).

He was content with the path he chose to follow and life made more sense to him that way. Even when you disagree with him you could tell that he exudes what life truly encompasses: LOVE, HAPPINESS. You could tell he wanted everyone to get along and interact peacefully(LOVE), and you could tell he wanted everyone to be free or allowed to do what they enjoy (HAPPINESS) as long as it does not infringe/impose on other people's lives. If at all I've learned anything from him, he has contributed to helping me understand the importance of not allowing my prejudices to cloud or limit my acceptance of others. To be able to give others a fair chance at earning your respect. . . . And lastly to "make lemonades when life throws you lemons", which is glaring in the way he cleverly responds with wit to most insults/ad-hominems thrown at him during dialogues here.




On a related note:


"*_* I am death
I thirst for blood like a hungry mosquito
My suffocating grip is poision to any soul
Tunes of panegyrics are music that dance me
My venom is genetically programmed to bring tears to your mother
Your dreams are my envy, I yearn to destroy them
Destruction is my friend, together we ruin
Unseen, but forever is my presence felt"

I remember blurting this in a post here a year(s?) ago in a reflective mood.
A good reminder that death does not discriminate. No amount of preparing can get you ready for death - be ye young or old.
So Bawo, Like your father I also will try as hard as I can to find it in my heart to "forgive your killers," for the sake of my own peace of mind and a coping mechanism for your loss. Still a question I will continue to ask for some time which I believe will remain unanswered is "WHY"?

[url=http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=news&cd=1&ved=0CCEQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fct-met-uic-student-killed-20101206-21%2C0%2C327635.story&ei=rNP9TJnzGIP58AadoIjbBw&usg=AFQjCNG5pHT4S-TbNPDLN9__7oz9is4m5w&sig2=4mbVRHdAOGQUsCdvfvdL_w]School pays final respects to brilliant young man.[/url]

Bawolowo
Maybe just maybe you'll rise again to read,
All these touching tributes.
Your years bar you not from expressing yourself. . .
So I'll wait till you rise again to read.
(And I will not say goodbye and I'll will try not to cry)

Wat a painfull loss. You were indeed a rear gem to have made such an impact in d  short life you had. I pray God will give ur parents the heart and grace to bear the loss

And to who ever posted this

bawolomo, iku ojiji tomotomo ti ebi re ati awon obi e ni osu ti awa yi

here https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-495020.128.html#msg6555689 all because of an argument.

I guess you are happy now that you got your wish.

Why anyone would wish death on a fellow human being would always elude me. Like you have the right to decide who lives and who dies. Does his death make the world a better place for you to live now?

Eni ti oni ki enikan ku, ki ohun na maku mo.